All I can say is Wow. How nifty can this be. An instantaneous translation service just like having a personal dictionary available with you. And they made it possible by letting you chat with a bot. What’s even more interesting is that this service within GoogleTalk has a lot more language pairs than Google Translate. It makes you wonder why they haven’t implemented an Invisible option for GTalk yet!

To start chatting/translating, invite the language pair bot that you’d like to use. It follows the general syntax:

[source_language]2[destination_language]@bot.talk.google.com

So for example, you’d like to use the English to Spanish translation bot, you need to invite en2es@bot.talk.google.com For all the other bots, you can use the following:

ar2en, en2ar (Arabic<->English)
bg2en (Bulgarian->English)
de2en, en2de (German<->English)
de2fr, fr2de (German<->French)
el2en, en2el (Greek<->English)
es2en, en2es (Spanish<->English)
fi2en (Finnish->English)
fr2en, en2fr (French<->English)
hi2en (Hindi->English)
hr2en (Croatian->English)
it2en, en2it (Italian<->English)
ja2en, en2ja (Japanese<->English)
ko2en, en2ko (Korean<->English)
nl2en, en2nl (Dutch<->English)
ru2en, en2ru (Russian<->English)
uk2en (Ukrainian->English)
ur2en (Urdu->English)
zh2en, en2zh (Chinese<->English)

As with Google Translate, this service isn’t 100% accurate, best for those common phrases and short sentences. Just take a look at how it misses the common question “How are you called?/What’s your name?” What’s more interesting is to have the bots join you in group chat and have them translate for you in different language all in one convenient interface.

Via Google Operating System